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(
&
, 2549), “badness in quality” (the opposite of
, “excellence”), “the
vicious character generally” (Lightfoot), is translated “malice” in 1 Cor. 5:8; 14:20; Eph.
4:31; Col. 3:8; Titus 3:3; 1 Pet. 2:1,
KJV
(
RV
, “wickedness”; marg., “malice”);
“maliciousness” in Rom. 1:29; in 1 Pet. 2:16,
KJV
(
RV
, “wickedness”; marg., “malice”).
Elsewhere, Matt. 6:34; Acts 8:22; Jas. 1:21 (
RV
marg., “malice”). See
EVIL
, B, No. 1.¶
Note:
In 2 John 10,
KJV
,
, “evil, wicked” (see
EVIL
, A. No. 2) is translated
“malicious” (
RV
, “wicked”).
MALIGNITY
(
)
, 2550), lit., “bad manner or character” (
, “bad,”
,
“manner”), hence, “an evil disposition” that tends to put the worst construction on
everything, “malice, malevolence, craftiness,” occurs in Rom. 1:29, as the
accompaniment of
, “guile.”¶
MAMMON
(
, 3126), a common Aramaic word for “riches,” akin to a
Hebrew word signifying “to be firm, steadfast” (whence “Amen”), hence, “that which is
to be trusted”; Gesenius regards it as derived from a Heb. word signifying “treasure”
(Gen. 43:23); it is personified in Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:9, 11, 13.¶
MAN (See also
MEN
)
1.
(
/
$
, 444) is used (a) generally, of “a human being, male or
female,” without reference to sex or nationality, e.g., Matt. 4:4; 12:35; John 2:25; (b) in
distinction from God, e.g., Matt. 19:6; John 10:33; Gal. 1:11; Col. 3:23; (c) in distinction
from animals, etc., e.g., Luke 5:10; (d) sometimes, in the plural, of “men and women,”
people, e.g., Matt. 5:13, 16; in Mark 11:2 and 1 Tim. 6:16, lit., “no one of men”; (e) in
some instances with a suggestion of human frailty and imperfection e.g., 1 Cor. 2:5; Acts
14:15 (2nd part); (f) in the phrase translated “after man,” “after the manner of men,” “as a
man” (
KJV
), lit. “according to (
) man,” is used only by the apostle Paul, of “(1) the
practices of fallen humanity 1 Cor. 3:3; (2) anything of human origin, Gal. 1:11; (3) the
laws that govern the administration of justice among men, Rom. 3:5; (4) the standard
generally accepted among men, Gal. 3:15; (5) an illustration not drawn from Scripture, 1
Cor. 9:8; (6) probably = ‘to use a figurative expression’ (see
KJV
, marg.), i.e., to speak
evil of men with whom he had contended at Ephesus as ‘beasts’ (cf. 1 Cor. 4:6), 1 Cor.
15:32; Lightfoot prefers ‘from worldly motives’; but the other interpretation, No. (4),
seems to make better sense. See also Rom. 6:19, where, however, the Greek is slightly
different, anthropinos, ‘pertaining to mankind’; the meaning is as Nos. (5) and (6).”*
(g) in the phrase “the inward man,” the regenerate person’s spiritual nature
personified, the inner self of the believer, Rom. 7:22, as approving of the law of God; in
Eph. 3:16, as the sphere of the renewing power of the Holy Spirit; in 2 Cor. 4:16 (where
is not repeated), in contrast to “the outward man,” the physical frame, the
“man” as cognizable by the senses; the “inward” man is identical with “the hidden man
of the heart,” 1 Pet. 3:4.
* From
Notes on Galatians,
by Hogg and Vine, p. 139.